The Dickinson press., 1887-04-16

w uiao "oluS ue uau addressed TO Qcr since
lie entered with the leaves, "and pen and ink"
ard while she was gone he emptied tho cup
on the fire.
To each end of his tiny cylinder he tied a
piece of riband, and with tho pen and ink lie
scrawlcd on the parchment the Greek letters
i'll his remarkable charm, repeating tho
words as he did SO.
"Now give me thy wrist" he said to the
girl; and us he knotted the riband his eyes
searched into hers and seemed to look through
them down every nerve in her body.
"Ncar that" he said, as he finished the
knot, "and the sickness will never return to
you. Rest and fear not Farewell till the
dawn,"
And in great grandeur he stalked off to
bed. A thing is not worth doing at all if it
is not worth doing we'll, and this our student
knew. To have stayed and watched for the
result of his audacious piece of foolery would
have been too severe q trial for him. So he
went to bed and laughed; and then some
bow the laughter thinned away. And he was
just beginning to reproach himself when ho
dropped off to sleep.
In the morning there came a knocking at
his door.
"WLo's there?"
ats long past dawn" said the hostess.
"What do you want:'
"A1y daughter had never a fit last night.n
''Nor will she have again. 'Tis WE'LL" said
the stranger, ns impressively us he could man
age.
When he came down he found the breakfast
ready.
81 desire no breakfast y he said, 81 cannot
pay YOU"
"pay mel" said the hostess. "You have
given ne my daughters life and it isl should
pay You. You are welcome to all you have
had and all you can take now"
The charm had had its effect. Tho girls
nervous nature had yielded to the mans
stronger WILL and the ague had been defeated
And, what is more, the sickness did not re-
turn to her.
Tho student miracle worker therefore fin.
ishc'l his breakfast and with profuse thanks
from !lle'nother and child, rode away. He
never saw the widow again. But from the
moment he caught the last glimpse of her
cut in the road at the end Of the avenue of
Gins, whose impy, hanging leaves were
trembling to fall, he dated new life. He
returned to college to work In February,
1868, he was called to the bar, and rose quick
ly into notice rs first rate lawyer and sue
cessful advocate. He became recorder of
London, to be removed from his office by
James III for his opposition to the court
measures, and when William III sought the
fittest man to purify the bench and make the
law respected, lie choose for the lord chief
i!sticcsh;n of England the curer of the land
laly's daughter, Sir John Holt
How he fulfilled his duties during the
twenty one years lie held his position we can
leave to Macaulay and tie other historians to
tell. He stood up for the law against the Ell.
croachment of monarch and parliament, and
he it was who set the example of that spirit
| and temper which has distinguished our
judges ever since. When Lord Somers left
the chancellorship it was offered to Sir John,
but he declined it. he felt that he had found
the post for which he was most fitted
This year 100 was a memorable one for
him for another reason. As lie sat trying
prisoners at the assiZes woman was brought
before him charged with witchcraft Old and
haggard and miserable she stood in the dock,
literally hunted down. The charges against
her of curing COWS and horses ard women and
men by throwing a spell over them seemed to
| be clearly proved. The evidence could not
be shaken, and the woman herself admitted
that she had exercised an influence as de-
scribed. She was found guilty, but before
the lord chief justice passed sentence be asked
her if she had anything to say in defense of
herself
Only that it is true, your lordship. They
asked me to lend them my charm and lent
it to them, and now they have turned
against me-"
"Wliat is this char1n!n
sit is this, my lord" said she, slipping off
her wrist a tiny roll of parchment. "It was
given to me forty years ago by a stranger
who cured Inc of the ague. He told me it
would thenceforth cure everything, and so it
has done!'
And up to the judge, who was about to
sentence her to death, was given the packet
he himself had made in the inn. This was
the end of his adventure. There was the eta
zcta, etc, that he had scrawled; and he was
the tempter and originator of the charm for
using which he was to hand over this poor
truster in his honesty to the cxecutioner. For
forty years his thoughtless folly had been
working round and now it had reached him
as he sat on the judgment seat.
''We will make inquiry into this. The SEN
tence is deferred"
That was all he said. The woman was re-
moved. AS speedily as possible she was par
doned. The students freak in the little
ONfordshire village had important conse-
quences. Sir John had had enough trials for
witchcraft, and henceforth he discouraged
them in every way. Where he went there
were no convictions. When he died, in 171O,
the laws had practically become obsolete, and
soon afterwards they were repealed.-W. j.
Gordon in Home Journal.
Charles Jay Taylor, of Puck and Harper's
finds his annual earnings to be about IS 900.
I Thure de Thustrup. who furnishes double
page to Harper's Weekly every week. -four
iahcs his pencil to the tune of $4,000 year.
Edwin A Abbey is said to make between
$4,000 and 10000 year. His drawings for
"She Stops to Conquer" are valued at S2O,-
go
Among artists in America who make S1O,-
100 a year are Baron de Grimm, of The New
/ York Telegram, William Chase, c. 8. Rein
hart, Harry Fem and Alfred Parsons
+ James 81. Beard, the venerable artist, has
nearly completed life size portrait of Gen.
W. 7. Sherman The general Is represented
in sitting posture, his right arm resting
upon table.
There is presently to be erected in the ca
thedral of Rouen, France. monumental
statue of Rene Robert Cavelier de la Sale,
the explorer of the great lakes and the Mis-
sissippi river, and founder of the French
colony of Louisiana. He was a native of
Rouen-
Astruc's original statue "Un Marchand de
Masques," was placed in the Luxembourg
garden few days ago. The masks which
are said to be very life like are those Of Car
pcaux, Faure, Gounod, Victor Hugo, Corot,
Balzac, Delacroix, Dumas, de Banville, dAu-
revilly, Berlioz, and Gambetta,
Hubert Herkomer, in an address lately de-
livered before the Salisbury School of Art,
made an onslaught upon the method of in
struction adopted at South Kensington. He
maintained that it was completely wrong.
As all Englishmen swear by South Kensing
ton, the TRADE will bring forth some lively